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New build from old parts...COA question
On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote:
I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts! Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?" When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA. |
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New build from old parts...COA question
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:31:35 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa
wrote: On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote: I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts! Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?" When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA. There is a particular update (the number escapes me, but googling for Win 7 nag should reveal it, or ask and I'll dig it up) which results in that behaviour. Delete/uninstall that update and you get back your desktop behaviour. Another update (last Dec IIRC) now causes the banner in the lower right above the status bar: Win 7 Build 7601 This copy is not genuine or similar. Haven't got round to chasing that one down. This MS attitude to paid-for O/S's givesme the irrits. |
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New build from old parts...COA question
On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8:24:48 PM UTC-6, pedro wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:31:35 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa wrote: On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote: I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts! Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?" When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA. There is a particular update (the number escapes me, but googling for Win 7 nag should reveal it, or ask and I'll dig it up) which results in that behaviour. Delete/uninstall that update and you get back your desktop behaviour. Another update (last Dec IIRC) now causes the banner in the lower right above the status bar: Win 7 Build 7601 This copy is not genuine or similar. Haven't got round to chasing that one down. This MS attitude to paid-for O/S's gives me the irrits. I have it set to never update. |
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New build from old parts...COA question
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:05:34 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa
wrote: On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8:24:48 PM UTC-6, pedro wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:31:35 -0800 (PST), Bob_Villa wrote: On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 11:07:41 AM UTC-6, Bob_Villa wrote: I assembled some parts I had lying around from salvage: an old Asus/AMD M/B and a used laptop drive I had from a portable USB. When I loaded Windows 7 from an OEM Dell DVD it never asked for the COA. I've never had this happen and was wondering how or why? It's been a few months, so it didn't come back and ask for it...Thanks for any thoughts! Yesterday it finally said "Windows is not genuine" and it shows a black background wallpaper. It asks, "Do you want to resolve this online?" When I've installed before it would show an icon "key" and keep nagging for the COA. There is a particular update (the number escapes me, but googling for Win 7 nag should reveal it, or ask and I'll dig it up) which results in that behaviour. Delete/uninstall that update and you get back your desktop behaviour. Another update (last Dec IIRC) now causes the banner in the lower right above the status bar: Win 7 Build 7601 This copy is not genuine or similar. Haven't got round to chasing that one down. This MS attitude to paid-for O/S's gives me the irrits. I have it set to never update. Interesting. The black desktop background (i.e. ignoring your selected DTBG) was a characteristic/outcome of a check performed by that update I referred to. Prior to that (and after uninstallation of the said update), out-of-the-box W7-7601behaved properly wrt desktop background selection. Here, anyway. |
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